HacDC Lightning Talks sessions feature 12 speakers, each talking for 5 minutes. Topics can be anything of interest to the speaker. Speakers submit their ideas for approval, and 12 topics are chosen for a given session. Rejected topics may be resubmitted for any future session. To submit a talk topic proposal, please e-mail Katie a title and brief description (if not self explanatory).

Why would you want to do a lightning talk?

To show off a project

Let people know what you're into

Get feedback on an idea

Practice talking about a particular topic

Practice public speaking in a nonthreatening way

Find project contributors/volunteers/members

LOCATION:

Normally held at: HacDC @ St. Stephen's Church

1525 Newton St NW (corner of 16th St NW)

Look for a red door facing the parking lot. Take the green line metro to Columbia Heights.

What an amazing Lightning Talks. The talks were well attended and the setup was better than ever with a great sound system setup and an actual camera crew. We had fantastic presentations spanning tech, science, art, music and even comedy.

Top notch talks made this a night to remember and we managed to improve upon the first talks in several ways including more comfortable seating arrangements, video recording (will be posted here eventually), and smoother transitions between speakers with mini Q&A sessions. The cookies were tasty (if I must say so myself), and about a dozen attendees enjoyed drinks and mingling after the talks at a nearby pub.

Speakers:

The future of space-based lidar (Brian)

Rapid Open Source Hardware Prototyping (Riley)

Intro to DSP (Omer)

sudo make me a website (Daniel)

Best food near HacDC (Timball)

Taking high-res photos with cheap point-and-shoots (Jim)

Simple devices, complex sounds (Elliot)

Developing Firefox Extensions (looking at Greasemonkey as an example) (Nikolas)

We packed the house with smiling hackers at the first monthly HacDC Lightning Talks! The talks were awesome and so were the cookies! Thanks to everyone who participated and made this a success. Next month will be even better organized with more space, better arrangement, more advance scheduling, and video recording.